The Lord Jakob Nielsen has tested the iPad for usability and found it
wanting of Affordances <http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances_and.html>.

Of the BBC iPad application:

"Unfortunately, apps aimed at browsing, such as... BBC do not provide a
search box on the iPad.

Several users had trouble finding the health or the sports section of BBC:
those topics unfortunately were accessible only in landscape mode... the
within-page navigation bar is transformed into a left-side panel."

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/

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